Nice work on the Colin Goddard comment on Snowflakes getting under the anti’s skin btw. I read the article and saw the facebook page before you took the article down. They were pretty pissed off about that. haha

Is that one of the Cavalry Arms CAV-15 MkIII polymer lowers? I wonder what the damage would have been to a standard lower. I’m sure the Cavalry Arms lowers are well build but I can’t help but wonder if, in this case, it posed more danger to the operator.

Aluminum may have been less safe actually because when it exploded it would have probably fragmented more. This cav arms one seemed to just crack (except for the one part of the magwell), which was probably a blessing.

I enjoy reloading. I reload 7.62×51 for hunting and fun shooting. I reload .223 for hunting and fun shooting. Oh hell, I reload because it’s fun. .223 reloading is a little hard to justify. There isn’t any performance gain that I’ve seen. The steel cased stuff shoots just as well as my plinking loads and the match stuff shoot better than my best loads. It’s marginally cheaper and I hate getting rid of brass so it treats some of my mental issues. Most of my reloading is 9mm because I’ve got a 1000 round a week pistol habit and it’s the only way I can afford it. My advice, get one of the big name books. Hornady, Speer, etc. Then get the little book for any caliber you plan on reloading. That way you can read up on what they all say without having a 10 foot stack of books to look through as you are digesting all the information. The ABC’s of reloading should be required reading as well.

That is a slam fire not an incorrect powder mixture; if you look at the pics on AR 15.com none of the locking lugs are torn out and the breech isn’t split, nor is the barrel ruptured. Must’ve not used mil spec primers or seated them properly.

I’ve seen binary loads listed for Very large rifle calbers that utilize a small charge of pistol powder to ignite a large charge of very slow burning rifle powder. What this guy was thinking putting a binary charge in something as small as .223 is beyond me.